The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-04

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. fereut reports made during the four year
of the war. Mr.. Monroe Is doing his worl
accurately and satisfactorily, and up to
week ago reported at the end of every
week. Owing, however, to the heavy ex
press charges, this frequent transmission o
his report was ordered discontinued and h
was instructed to send a monthly report
The Adjutant General was looking for a re
! port yesterday.
Valdosta Times: Mr. r. s. Holzendorf, o.
Midtown, has left in this office curiosity
which may be termed a Siamese tyty bush
Two of these bushes, growing foot apart
are joined together several f&t above the
ground by what seems TO be a natural graft
The trunks are about an inch and a half il
diameter, and the limb which shot out from
the one and grew into the othekis about az
inch in diameter. 1t was cut from the Suwa
noochee creek swamp in Clinch county by
Messrs. Elbert Cameron and A. s. Lovejoy
l. Mr. Hulzendorf left in our Office also a hor
nets nest as large as a half bushel measure
which was found in the Alapaha river
| swamp We will state, however, to timid
delinquents that the hornets do not now in
habit the nest There is absolutely no dan
ger in it.
Col Adolph Brandt returned to Atlanta
| Saturday from Cincinnati, where he has
been in the interest of certain Atlanta credit
ors of the defunct Fidelity Bank. Col Brandt
secured for the principal Atlanta creditor.
| a commission house, the 81, 800 due by bring
| ing suit against President Briggs Swift,
| Mr.. Zimmerman and other directors of the
bank, attaching their property. Col. Brandt
| states that the Ohio laws are not like those
| of Georgia in that they do not make il a
| crime for bank officers to receive money on
deposit after they know that the bank is in
| solvent, or even on the verge of a failure
| This point was investigated thoroughly by
ha hp-t aft 1irtrt nnI al
| Brandt found that while the law did not
provide for criminal liability and punish
| ment, ii gave his client q positively safe
| claim against all the directors and officers
of the bank.
| Friday the State Treasurer paid to Maj.
| Lamar Cobb, Treasurer of the University of
Georgia, $S,g25, the same being the semi
| annual interest on $3.50, 900 worth of certif-
Gates of indebtedness belonging to the State
held by the university authorities. The
| Treasurer also handed Mai. Cobb the sum
Of SO, 157 OF, the amount of the semi-annual
! interest on the land scrip fund held by the
| university The assets of the university are
| now not In 81, 900 and $500 bonds of the
| State, as they once were. When the bonds
fell due, as they did some years ago. in
stead of reissuing them or giving new bonds
in their stead, the State added the amount
of the various bonds and issued to the uni
versity a certificate of Indebtedness for the
aggregate amount. The rate of interest the
certificate bears is the same as that of the
| original bonds, Z per cent, it not being re
| duced as in the case of the other indebted
ness of the State.
Col Henry D. Capers, of Adairsville, who
is now i'll Quitman, in the interest of the
Atlantic, Birmingham and Western rail-
way, speaks very feelingly of his last visit
to the town. This visit was in 1868, imme.
al gDapaR1inor hn hat Of nd
is doubtless remembered by many citizens.
The Colonel was there with two regiments
| numbering about 200 soldiers, and spent
two days and three nights in the place.
The soldier bows were given q grand
ball during their stay The ball came off
| in the court house, the court room hav-
ing been cleared of all the benches for
| the occasion. Dancing was kept up from Q
o'clock in the evening until broad daylight
| the next morning. Dress parades were given
| by the soldiers during each afternoon of
| their stay, and big sham battle on one of
| the days. The battle was between the two
| regiments, one OF which was from Virginia,
and was witnessed by thousands of people
| from the surrounding country The Colonel
| and his soldiers were so royalty entertained
| that it was with the greatest reluctance that
| they left such pleasant quarters, and only
| did so at the peremptory command of Gen.
| Beauregard.
Bob Williams, a colored man, working for
w. A. Greer at Stockton, went to Valdosta
| on Friday night, and went back ON Satur-
| days Shoe Fly, taking lot Of whisky with
him. Being drunk, he remained so until he
was shot dead by Gordon Burrows, man
of his race, about IL o'clock Sunday. The
| trouble arose between Williams and another
fellow, Williams shooting at him. In the
meantime Burrows went from where he
was TO where the shooting was going on TO
| sec who it was. Williams ran out
with his pistol in his hand, hailed Burrows
and told him that he wanted to sec him,
cursing him as he advanced. The witnesses
say they don't know the exact words that
passed between the two They say that
Williams either gave Burrougs his pistol or
Burrows took it from him and they don't
know which. Anyway Burrows shot
Williams with Williams own pistol and
escaped and is yet at large. Williams
being a reckless character, his death is not
regretted by his wife, as he ran her off a
week previous, and wrote her letter during
the week to prepare herself for death, that
he was going to kill her ON Sunday night
anywhere he found her.
At Adairsville a scene was enacted at the
| station house few days since that has made
woe to one of the parties connected, and a
pathway through life strewn with roses for
the others. A young man Of tall stature
came down from Chattanooga on the morn
ing train. stopping at the hotel His actions
We're decidedly peculiar. He seemed to be
| very nervous and restless. Finally the ap-
pearance of license to marry explained
matters, and justice of the peace would
have been ON hand on the moment, but
| friend of this lone young
man, who was to be married
| so rapidly, suggested to him that
he had better notify the intended bride, who
was in town. before ordering a Justice of
the Peace for two. Mr. Turnkey, for that
was his name, was seated in the parlor of
the hotel awaiting the arrival of his future
partner through life, when n lovely bru-
nette with sparkling eyes, made her appear
ance, and, without any explanation, bowed
| gracefully and told this man. whom she had
written TO while he was i'm Birmingham, TO
come here and she would marry him, ''to
| please excuse her; she could never be his
wife," walked out and was married 60 Mr.
Hannah in "A day or so. Applicant No. /,
after receiving the mitten from his bonny
bride, refused to eat anything and was left
| crying in the hotel Both gentlemen
were in town after this one bride, and
both were kept away from the other. Pa
rental objection was the cause of SO much
| trouble.
| FLORIDA.
Fort Ogden is TO be incorporated.
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